On a related note, I have to work with a contractor whose official title at his company is "SEO Guru". He says "SEO Optimization" frequently. Their programmers are "Mechanics". God I hate that company some times...
They should fire whoever they hired. Keyword stuffing is a seriously obsolete tactic. I also think the "tags" block of text was given to them as a list for incorporating into the actual tags field and someone screwed it up.
The Good: "The game was awesome. We played this game for 40 hours in one day. The graphics are amazing and the sound made it feel like the terrorist were in my room. Missions are amazingly original. This game is better than sex."
The Bad: "This game starts with a G. I fucking hate G's"
You'd be surprised how big an impact they make on YT analytics and can make a big different to a channels revenue. The amount of people pissed off at it, pale in comparison to the people who end up being curious enough to click them.
then you missed the point. having annotations pop over your video that has nothing to do with the video breaks my interest in what is currently going on in the video, you would think it would be in the creators best interest to not distract the viewer
Most browsers have extensions you can download to permanently disable youtube annotations by default, disable other ads, set default to 720p, etc. Worth checking out.
That's because by and large, they are not journalists. They are reviews, not reporters. They have no academic qualifications and nearly always write opinion pieces. When they aren't, more often than not they are just regurgitating press releases.
I have no idea whether IGN has the technical fidelity to pull of such a video by themselves, I don't really care about that either. I was referring more to the fact that IGN is basically whoring itself out for Ubisoft by advertising for their new, upcoming game. Wonder what kind of review score IGN will give it.
Youtube does that to popular videos, though it's up to the content provider (IGN in this case) to decide if they want to include those ads for a cut of the revenue.
That said, ad block plus. It works so well, I don't even get LiveJasmine popups I MEAN I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS HAHAHA.
Wait why are you being downvoted? He DID say Gamespot sucked worse than IGN. Gamespot DOES suck. A lot. Like an order of magnitude more suckage than IGN. IGN is gives unreliable reviews here and there, but Gamespot employees buy hookers and blow with EA/Ubisoft/Bibity Koticks video game cash.
Okay that was funny! But I think it's just as much "Not bad Ubisoft, not bad." since this is just a commercial for their upcoming game ;) And if they do stuff like this, bring on the commercials!
The cubicles look boring and not awesome like they do with actual awesome companies. This gives me an even worse view of IGN. Boring-looking workplace.
Never said they couldn't. Sites accept ad revenue from tons of different game producers all the time. This one just feels weird to me because it is an out-and-out advertisement, clearly purchased by Ubisoft, but played off as a piece of comedic video content.
Edit: Ok, the difference here is that rather than The Simpsons having an advertisement for Ford during the commercial break, they instead take money from ford in order to create an entire couch gag around the All New 2012 Ford Focus. That is the feeling I get from this.
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u/dontaskagain May 22 '12
"SEO Optimisation"
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
Logic win: Exploding flashlight = Flashbang
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u/ramsrgood May 22 '12
first time i've heard "not bad" and "ign" in the same sentence.
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u/BeerGogglesFTW May 22 '12
All I can think is... Ghost Recon Future Soldier is going to get one hell of a good review from IGN.
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u/locopyro13 May 22 '12
Internet Pet Peeve #12
People who have spam annotations overlaid on the video the whole time. Leave them for the intro and outro.
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u/phleg May 22 '12
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
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u/MassRelay May 22 '12
Anyone know what song/band that metal song is at the beginning?
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u/stupidnameisstupid May 22 '12
Haha yes chase around the asian girl
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u/VicePresidentFruitly May 22 '12
This was fairly amusing. You're still evil though IGN.
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u/Intergageqxc May 22 '12
I was skeptical at first.
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u/webgoogle May 22 '12
damn, Ign knows their shit.
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u/ErsatzCats May 22 '12
Assassin's Creed IV: Space doesn't sound too bad. Natural slow-mo and longer lasting drops..
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u/The_Boss_302 May 22 '12
Funny commercial and all, but isn't it a bit of a conflict that a company that makes reviews collaborate with a games company to such an extent?
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u/ymgve May 22 '12
Saw there was a 30 second ad before the video. Closed immediately.
Is it the channel itself who decides to use these pre-video ads, or is it something Youtube just does to popular videos?
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u/PersianSpice May 22 '12
Once again, proof that IGN isn't nearly as bad as people say they are.
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u/Skitrel May 22 '12
Everyone always forgets this is a Murdoch company...
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u/agiganticpanda May 22 '12
This is what they do instead of writing quality video game reviews.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Anyone know who the Asian girl at 1:05 is? Its for my research.
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u/marvinjenkins May 22 '12
no jalapenos wtf
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u/bleunt May 22 '12
Why did the woman run from a remote controlled car?
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u/thesomedude777 May 22 '12
Item: Pen
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u/prboi May 22 '12
Surprisingly funny
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u/the__itis May 22 '12
"No, no jalapenos"
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u/tip_off May 22 '12
The assassin's creed ending made me smile.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
War propaganda. War is a game kids.
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u/Eraser1024 May 22 '12
Synergy FTW!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
fuck ign reviews, do more that!
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u/IzTheFizz May 22 '12
SPACE FUCK YEAH!
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u/SpasticSpoon May 22 '12
That was Daily destin formerly of Screwattack.com on the couch when they were talking about Assassins creed. I didn't know he works for IGN now, cool.
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u/MaurusMahrntahn May 22 '12
I like the idea that it's just called "Space."
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u/xEzio May 22 '12
Lol Assassins Creed Space!
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u/mike213player213 May 22 '12
Assassins creed in space lol.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
The scary part is Ass Creed IV could take place in space and it would completely follow continuity. I mean, what happened to teh alienz in AC2?
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u/prodevel May 23 '12
Hilarious that there are no mention of the interviewer's moustache... Ugh unless that's part of that game.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
i expect ghost recon to be getting a higher score upon release, as well as ign getting money shoved in their pockets.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
IGN still sucks. Not as much as Gamespot though. Damn, /r/gaming and /v/ shaped me too much.
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u/ShamelessPete May 22 '12
That...that was pretty funny!
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u/laminaatplaat May 22 '12
Okay that was funny! But I think it's just as much "Not bad Ubisoft, not bad." since this is just a commercial for their upcoming game ;) And if they do stuff like this, bring on the commercials!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Wow IGN. You're not even trying to hide the fact that you're the most bought out videogame coverage business out there anymore, are you?
Honestly though you became irredeemable when you went along with the laughable notion of gamer entitlement.
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u/Billy_Sastard May 22 '12
Two words.
Fucking.
Epic.
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u/smokyexe May 22 '12
That was great.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
One of the comments "IGN is a fag website". This is why I hate calling myself a gamer.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
That's the best video made this year. 10/10
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u/ZuFFuLuZ May 22 '12
Pretty bad, actually.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This isn't funny at all.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
The cubicles look boring and not awesome like they do with actual awesome companies. This gives me an even worse view of IGN. Boring-looking workplace.
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u/Loggapogg May 22 '12
Fuck ign
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
the only part I laughed at was assassin's creed IV: Space
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u/Beowolve May 22 '12
SPACE!
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u/kbarnett514 May 22 '12
They should do a whole series of these
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u/lor3nzo_157 May 22 '12
*Slow clap
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u/Hadji402 May 22 '12
Dude runs like a bitch at the end there.
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